Colombia Ambassador Visits Puerto Rico
Above: Acting Governor David Bernier and Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States, Luis Carlos Villegas. Photo: OG Puerto Rico
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States, Luis Carlos Villegas, visited Puerto Rico this week, the first-ever official visit of a Colombian Ambassador to the island.
Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States, Luis Carlos Villegas, visited Puerto Rico this week, the first-ever official visit of a Colombian Ambassador to the island.
Villegas met with Acting Governor David Bernier at La Fortaleza in San Juan.
The meeting, which focused on trade issues, follows a memorandum of understanding signed between Puerto Rico and Colombia in July 2013.
Indeed, Puerto Rico has opened a trade office in Bogota, aiming to promote the island to the South American region and Colombia in particular.
“The Ambassador is a diplomat with extensive experience and a strong commitment to the Caribbean,” Bernier said.
For his part, Villegas said the visit was “of particular importance to me” given the fact that it was the first by a Colombian envoy to the island.
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